The Conference series ‘Understanding by communication’ was started in 2003 in Moscow Humanitarian Institute and the next meetings took place in Moscow State University and Moscow City Teachers Training University (with co-operation of the Russian Academy of Science). They were attended by linguists, psychologists, computer science specialists, sociologists and other specialists from more than 30 cities of Russia, from Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, the USA, Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, Iran, Malaysia, China and others.

Research Scope:

Understanding of verbal messages, language units in the process of understanding textsSemiotics of understandingUnderstanding in non-verbal communication Cognitive, pragmatic and discourse analytic aspects of understanding and productionPsychological analysis of understandingSkills of understanding in first and second language acquisitionsUnderstanding in social, political and historical communication Understanding of mass-media and advertisingUnderstanding of arts and literatureHermeneutic and philosophical problems of understandingUnderstanding in the computer assisted communication